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+# Deploying to Railway
+
+## Why the build fails with `npm error Unsupported URL Type "catalog:"`
+
+This repo is a pnpm workspace and uses pnpm's [catalog](https://pnpm.io/catalogs)
+feature (`"turbo": "catalog:"` etc. in `package.json`, resolved via
+`pnpm-workspace.yaml`). Railway's default Nixpacks builder falls back to plain
+`npm install` for these services, and npm has no concept of the `catalog:`
+protocol, so the install fails immediately.
+
+The fix is to stop using Nixpacks/npm for these services and instead build with
+the production Dockerfiles already shipped in this repo (the same ones used by
+`docker-compose.yml`), which install dependencies with pnpm via corepack.
+
+## Setup (per service)
+
+For each of `web`, `admin`, `space`, `live`, in the Railway dashboard:
+
+1. **Settings → Source → Root Directory**: leave this **blank** (repo root).
+   The Dockerfiles for these four apps run `turbo prune` against the whole
+   monorepo, so the build context must be the repo root, not the app
+   subfolder.
+2. **Settings → Build → Builder**: set to **Dockerfile**, or point
+   **Config-as-code Path** at the matching file in this folder:
+   - `deployments/railway/community/railway.web.json`
+   - `deployments/railway/community/railway.admin.json`
+   - `deployments/railway/community/railway.space.json`
+   - `deployments/railway/community/railway.live.json`
+3. **Settings → Networking**: target port `3000` (all four images `EXPOSE 3000`;
+   Railway should detect this automatically — confirm it).
+
+For `api` (and `worker` / `beat-worker` / `migrator` if you add them as
+separate Railway services from the same repo):
+
+1. **Root Directory**: `apps/api` (this Dockerfile's build context is the
+   `apps/api` folder, not the repo root — see `docker-compose.yml`).
+2. **Config-as-code Path**: `deployments/railway/community/railway.api.json`.
+3. **Custom Start Command** (override the image's default, which is the API
+   server): use `./bin/docker-entrypoint-worker.sh`,
+   `./bin/docker-entrypoint-beat.sh`, or `./bin/docker-entrypoint-migrator.sh`
+   for the worker/beat-worker/migrator services respectively.
+
+## Build-time variables the frontends need
+
+`web`, `admin`, `space`, and `live` are static/SPA builds — the backend URLs
+get baked in at **build time** via Docker `ARG`s, not read at runtime. In
+self-hosted Docker Compose these default to relative paths because a single
+nginx `proxy` sits in front of everything; on Railway each service gets its
+own domain, so you need to set these explicitly as **Variables** on each
+frontend service so Railway passes them through as build args:
+
+- `VITE_API_BASE_URL` → your `api` service's public URL
+- `VITE_ADMIN_BASE_URL` → your `admin` service's public URL
+- `VITE_SPACE_BASE_URL` → your `space` service's public URL
+- `VITE_WEB_BASE_URL` → your `web` service's public URL
+- `VITE_LIVE_BASE_URL` → your `live` service's public URL
+
+Since Railway assigns the domain after first deploy, do an initial deploy to
+get each URL, then set these variables and redeploy so the correct URLs get
+baked into the build.
+
+On the `api` service, set `CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS` (see `apps/api/.env.example`)
+to a comma-separated list of the `web`/`admin`/`space` public URLs, since they
+now live on different domains instead of behind one proxy.
+
+## Ports
+
+`web` and `admin` are served by nginx on a hardcoded port `3000`. `space`
+(`react-router-serve`) and `live` (Node) read `process.env.PORT` — set an
+explicit `PORT=3000` variable on those two services so they don't drift from
+Railway's auto-injected port and stop matching the target port above.
diff --git a/deployments/railway/community/railway.admin.json b/deployments/railway/community/railway.admin.json
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+{
+  "$schema": "https://railway.com/railway.schema.json",
+  "build": {
+    "builder": "DOCKERFILE",
+    "dockerfilePath": "apps/admin/Dockerfile.admin"
+  },
+  "deploy": {
+    "restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
+    "restartPolicyMaxRetries": 3
+  }
+}
diff --git a/deployments/railway/community/railway.api.json b/deployments/railway/community/railway.api.json
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+{
+  "$schema": "https://railway.com/railway.schema.json",
+  "build": {
+    "builder": "DOCKERFILE",
+    "dockerfilePath": "Dockerfile.api"
+  },
+  "deploy": {
+    "restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
+    "restartPolicyMaxRetries": 3
+  }
+}
diff --git a/deployments/railway/community/railway.live.json b/deployments/railway/community/railway.live.json
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+{
+  "$schema": "https://railway.com/railway.schema.json",
+  "build": {
+    "builder": "DOCKERFILE",
+    "dockerfilePath": "apps/live/Dockerfile.live"
+  },
+  "deploy": {
+    "restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
+    "restartPolicyMaxRetries": 3
+  }
+}
diff --git a/deployments/railway/community/railway.space.json b/deployments/railway/community/railway.space.json
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+{
+  "$schema": "https://railway.com/railway.schema.json",
+  "build": {
+    "builder": "DOCKERFILE",
+    "dockerfilePath": "apps/space/Dockerfile.space"
+  },
+  "deploy": {
+    "restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
+    "restartPolicyMaxRetries": 3
+  }
+}
diff --git a/deployments/railway/community/railway.web.json b/deployments/railway/community/railway.web.json
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+{
+  "$schema": "https://railway.com/railway.schema.json",
+  "build": {
+    "builder": "DOCKERFILE",
+    "dockerfilePath": "apps/web/Dockerfile.web"
+  },
+  "deploy": {
+    "restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
+    "restartPolicyMaxRetries": 3
+  }
+}